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		<p>Mining asteroids is the process where astronauts and spacecraft would capture an asteroid. Capturing an asteroid and moving it to our moon's orbit would give astronauts the ability to study them up close. Research and study of asteroid mining is a topic being explored because of the potential for harvesting materials needed to further expand, or travel in space. There are many useful and rare materials on asteroids which can be harvested. These include water and elements such as iron, nickel or rare platinum metals. Because we might run out of certain elements on Earth, mining of asteroids could provide us with other sources of these elements. 
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			<p>In what ways could an asteroid help us? Space travel is something that space agencies like NASA plan.  Because scientists have discovered that asteroids contain ice, which is frozen water, this could help us travel in space. Humans need water in order to survive, and if we could get it from asteroids in space, then we could travel farther and explore new things in space. 
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			<p>Mining asteroids is a topic that is currently being explored due to the potential of harvesting materials needed to further expand, or travel in space.There are many essential materials which can be harvested that include water, or elements such as iron, nickel or titanium. The future exhuastion of these materials on Earth will prompt explorers to seek out potential sources on asteroids.</p> 
 				
				
 			
 		
 	<p>The first missions to capture and mine asteroids could be in just a few years. Maybe you could be the first astronaut to mine asteroids?  NASA is working on a project that will allow astronauts and scientists to visit an asteroid in 2019. Scientists at NASA believe it's possible to move an asteroid that weighs approximately 500 to 1,000 tons. They hope to move an asteroid to our moon's orbit in order to have it available to study.Gravity affects everything on Earth and causes metals to be away from the surface. Because gravity is not as strong on asteroids as it is on Earth, mining metals on them would be easier than on Earth. Scientists believe there may be over 1 million asteroids that are considered to be "near-Earth". These asteroids are located outside of Earth's orbit, but not far away like most of them located between Mars and Jupiter. 
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            <p>Have you ever wondered what its like to find a cool rock with precious metals? How about finding some in space? That's what some scientists want to do by sending spacecraft and maybe astronauts to mine for elements that could be returned to Earth, or used to travel in space.</p>
          
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